Bruce
Dickinson - Alexander The Great (part)
live in Athens
21.07.2024
Iron Maiden
"My
son ask for thyself another kingdom
For that
which I leave is too small for thee"
Near to the
east
In a part
of ancient Greece
In an
ancient land called Macedonia
Was born a
son
To Philip
of Macedon
The legend,
his name was Alexander
At the age
of nineteen
He became
the Macedon King
And he
swore to free all of Asia Minor
By the
Aegean Sea
In 334 B.C
He utterly
beat the armies of Persia
Alexander
the Great
His name
struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander
the Great
Became a
legend amongst mortal men
King Darius
the third
Defeated
fled Persia
The
Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes
Then Egypt
fell
To the
Macedon King as well
And he
founded the city called Alexandria
By the
Tigris river
He met King
Darius again
And crushed
him again in the battle of Arbela
Entering
Babylon
And Susa,
treasures he found
Took
Persepolis, the capital of Persia
Alexander
the Great
His name
struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander
the Great
Became a
God amongst mortal men
A Phrygian
King had bound a chariot yoke
And
Alexander cut the 'Gordian knot'
And legend
said that who untied the knot
He would
become the master of Asia
Hellenism
he spread far and wide
The
Macedonian learned mind
Their
culture was a western way of life
He paved
the way for Christianity
Marching
on, marching on
The battle
weary marching side by side
Alexander's
army line by line
They
wouldn't follow him to India
Tired of
the combat, pain and the glory
Alexander
the Great
His name
struck fear into hearts of men
Alexander
the Great
He died of
fever in Babylon
